[gmx-users] Commands to run simulations using multiple GPU's in version 5.0.1

Wed Sep 24 17:57:48 CEST 2014

Thank you again for the reply.

ntmpi is for threadMPI but I am using OpenMPI for MPI as I am planning to
use multiple nodes.
As I have pointed in case 7 of my post that if I use ntmpi, i get a fatal
error that says :thread mpi's are requested but gromacs is not compiled
with thread MPI.

For which my questions are,
1. Isnt threadMPI enabled by default?
2. Are threadMPI and OpenMPI mutually incompatible?

In any case if I use mpirun -np 2 instead of ntmpi, I still cannot use
ntomp because gromacs now automatically detects environment settings for
the OpenMP threads which is equal to the number of hardware threads that is
available and this resulted in case 4 (please check above) of my post.

Is there any other command similar to the one you posted above that I can
use with OpenMPI? Because it looks like threadMPI and OpenMPI are not
compatible to me.

Thanks,

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Johnny Lu <johnny.lu128 at gmail.com> wrote:

> found it.
> http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Acceleration_and_parallelization
>
> GPUs are assigned to PP ranks within the same physical node in a sequential
> order, that is GPU 0 to the (thread-)MPI rank 0, GPU 1 to rank 1. In order
> to manually specify which GPU(s) to be used by mdrun, the respective device
> ID(s) can be passed with the -gpu_id XYZ command line option or with the
> GMX_GPU_ID=XYZ environment variable. Here, XYZ is a sequence of digits
> representing the numeric ID-s of available GPUs (the numbering starts from
> 0) . The environment variable is particularly useful when running on
> multiple compute nodes with different GPU configurations.
>
> Taking the above example of 8-core machine with two compatible GPUs, we can
> manually specify the GPUs and get the same launch configuration as in the
> above examples by:
>
> mdrun -ntmpi 2 -ntomp 4 -gpu_id 01
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Johnny Lu <johnny.lu128 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Actually i am trying to find the answer to the same question now.
> >
> > manual 4.6.7/appendix D/mdrun
> > says
> >
> > -gpu_id
> > string
> > List of GPU device id-s to use, specifies the per-node PP rank to GPU
> > mapping
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Siva Dasetty <sdasett at g.clemson.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Thank you Lu for the reply.
> >>
> >> As I have mentioned in the post, I have already tried those options but
> it
> >> didn't work. Kindly please let me know if you have anymore suggestions.
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Johnny Lu <johnny.lu128 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Try -nt, -ntmpi, -ntomp, -np  (one at a time) ?
> >> > I forget about what I tried now.... But I just stop the mdrun, and
> then
> >> > read the log file.
> >> > Also can look for the mdrun page in the offical manual (pdf) and try
> >> this
> >> > page:
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Gromacs_Utilities/mdrun?highlight=mdrun
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Siva Dasetty <sdasett at g.clemson.edu>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Dear  All,
> >> > >
> >> > > I am trying to run NPT simulations using GROMACS version 5.0.1 of a
> >> > system
> >> > > of size 140k atoms (protein+water systems) with 2 or more GPU's
> >> > > (model=k20); 8 cores (or more); and 1 or more nodes. I am trying to
> >> > > understand how to run simulations using multiple gpus on more than
> one
> >> > > node. I  get the following errors/output when I run the simulation
> >> using
> >> > > the following commands:-
> >> > >
> >> > > Note: time-step used = 2 fs and total number of steps = 20000
> >> > >
> >> > > First 4 cases are using single GPU and cases 5-8 are using 2 GPU's.
> >> > >
> >> > > 1. 1 node, 8 cpus, 1 gpu
> >> > > export OMP_NUM_THREADS = 8
> >> > > command used-  mdrun -s topol.tpr  -gpu_id 0
> >> > > Speed - 5.8 ns/day
> >> > >
> >> > > 2.  1 node, 8 cpus, 1 gpu
> >> > > export OMP_NUM_THREADS = 16
> >> > > command used-  mdrun -s topol.tpr   -gpu_id 0
> >> > > Speed - 4.7 ns/day
> >> > >
> >> > > 3. 1 node, 8cpus, 1gpu
> >> > > mdrun -s topol.tpr -ntomp 8  -gpu_id 0
> >> > > Speed- 5.876 ns/day
> >> > >
> >> > > 4. 1 node, 8cpus, 1gpu
> >> > > mdrun -s topol.tpr -ntomp 16  -gpu_id 0
> >> > > Fatal Error: Environment variable OMP_NUM_THREADS (8) and the number
> >> of
> >> > > threads requested on  the command line (16) have different values.
> >> Either
> >> > > omit one, or set them both
> >> > >  to the same value.
> >> > >
> >> > > Question for 3 and 4 : Do I need to always use OMP_NUM_THREADS or is
> >> > there
> >> > > a way ntomp overwrites the environment settings?
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > 5. 1 node, 8cpus , 2gpus
> >> > > export OMP_NUM_THREADS = 8
> >> > > mpirun -np 2 mdrun -s topol.tpr -pin on  -gpu_id 01
> >> > > Speed - 4.044 ns/day
> >> > >
> >> > > 6. 2 nodes, 8cpus , 2 gpus
> >> > > export OMP_NUM_THREADS = 8
> >> > > mpirun -np 2 mdrun -s topol.tpr -pin on  -gpu_id 01
> >> > > Speed - 3.0 ns/day
> >> > >
> >> > > Are the commands that I used for 5 and 6 correct?
> >> > >
> >> > > 7. I also used (1node, 8 cpus, 2 gpus)
> >> > >  mdrun -s topol.tpr -ntmpi 2 -ntomp 8  -gpu_id 01
> >> > > but this time I get a fatal error: thread mpi's are requested but
> >> gromacs
> >> > > is not compiled with thread MPI.
> >> > >
> >> > > Question: Isn't thread MPI enabled by default?
> >> > >
> >> > > 8. Finally, I recompiled Gromacs without OpenMP and re-ran case 1
> but
> >> > this
> >> > > time there is a fatal error "More than 1 OpenMP thread requested,
> but
> >> > > Gromacs was compiled without OpenMP support."
> >> > > command : mdrun -s topol.tpr  (no environment settings)  -gpu_id 0
> >> > > Question: Here again, I assumed thread MPI is enabled by default
> and I
> >> > > think Gromacs still assumes OpenMp thread settings. Am i doing
> >> something
> >> > > wrong here?
> >> > >
> >> > > Thanks in advance for your help
> >> > >
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